AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA GeForce 945M

VS

AMD FirePro M8900

NVIDIA GeForce 945M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 945M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 945M 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1189MHz

Lower TDP (23W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M8900 +43%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce 945M

0.913 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

VS

GeForce 945M

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Apr 2016

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1006 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1189 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.512 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.54 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

913.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

28.54 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

23W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GM108

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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